Applying for a credit card with a less-than-stellar credit score can be frustrating. A credit score can be affected by a few late payments, a high level of debt, or high credit utilization, which is ...

After two years of technology development in stealth, today Petal is announcing the first credit card designed for the estimated 65M Americans with no or misrepresentative credit scores. Instead, ...

Holly Johnson is a credit card expert and writer who covers rewards and loyalty programs, budgeting, and all things personal finance. In addition to writing for publications like Bankrate, CreditCards ...

Holly Johnson is a credit card expert and writer who covers rewards and loyalty programs, budgeting, and all things personal finance. In addition to writing for publications like Bankrate, CreditCards ...

If you want to build credit but don’t want to go the secured credit card route, Petal offers three different credit card options, one of which might work for you. If your credit is slightly better, in ...

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Petal, a new kind of credit card company built to help people financially succeed, today announced that it has closed an uncommitted facility to borrow up to $300 million in debt capital from global ...

Fintech startup Petal has raised $34 million in a round of funding from investment bank Jefferies and Silicon Valley Bank, as the New York-based startup officially launches its alternative credit card ...

You might be enjoying the benefits of a credit card with robust rewards today, but odds are when you were first getting started, it was hard to get even close to a card like that. That’s because, for ...

This post was updated to correct the names of the company’s founders and the fact that Petal makes money off of the interest payments its customers make. Petal, the startup credit card company that’s ...

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